Download your picture from your camera to your computer.
On my computer I double click the picture and it opens in Microsoft Office Picture Manager (MOPM). (You may manage your photos in a different program, you just need to find yours.)
Click *Edit Picture*.
Do what you need to crop, resize, brighten, zoom in and generally edit the picture if it needs it.
Now this is quite an important step to save you pulling your hair out, on MOPM, click *Compress Pictures* at the bottom of the right hand menu. I believe most picture managing packages have this as they guess you will probably want to post them on the net or email them in some form or another. I usually compress to Document size as this keeps the size of the photo but hugely reduces the actual file size but Web Page size is good too. (A small note here, What you are doing is the difference between making a king size Dear Jane Quilt top with hundreds of pieces (pixels) and replacing it with a top made of 12 inch Nine Patch blocks (not so many pixels). You still end up with a quilt on your bed but one didn’t take up so much of your time to make (file size). I think Gregory did a show on this but I will have to search to find which one.)
*Save* file. If this is a precious photo, save it under a different name so you still have the larger one somewhere on your computer should you ever wish to print a huge poster. I assume most of the photos on here will be snaps of finished quilts, like the BOMS, and, more likely, hiccups and problems with seams and machines and the like so large file formats are not really necessary to keep on your computer. (You're doing your computer a huge favor too saving smaller pictures!)
IMPORTANT: Remember which one is your compressed photo; perhaps give it a name to reflect this, shrunkseam.jpg tqspic1.jpg etc. If you hover over your photo in your computer, it will show you a list of information about that photo including the size. You are looking for the KB size version
not the MB one! (It's a bigger number but there are 1024KB's to 1MB.)
To place photos on this forum you have to Prehost. This is the most forum friendly and safest way to do it. The best out there (I think) is
http://www.photobucket.com as it’s easy to use, has a good reputation and I’ve been using it with forums, especially phpBB ones, for years. You join for free.
Upload your photo to Photobucket (or your chosen one providing it has a good reputation and is well used). This is where you will be grateful you compressed those pictures. If you still have large ones they take an eternity to transfer or your computer will freeze. Bulk uploaders have improved over the past couple of years but you still need patience and I can’t actually think of any times I have needed one as I don’t like to bore people which pointless photos, why use 4 when one will do!!
On Photobucket, once your picture is there, if you hover over it with your cursor a dropdown menu appears below the photo. From habit and ease I just click once in the last box on the right next to IMG Code (starts something like http:// ) then right click in the same now highlighted blue box and *copy*.
Go to your chosen post on the forum and *Post Reply*.
In the box, write what you need to, press the enter key a couple of times to put space between what you have written and your picture then right click and *paste*. The [img]http://andlotsofgobblydogookblurb[img] will appear. This is the code link back to your picture in Photobucket. If you preview your post you will see the picture as will everyone else when you post your reply.
If you move or delete your photo in Photobucket you will sever that link to the forum and it will disappear.
This is not the definitive way, it's just my way. Perhaps Gregory would like to add anything specific to being in the USA. There may be differences I'm not aware of.
[color=darkblue]At all times it is important to respect the forum, it’s users and especially those who have to run it. [/color]
[u]If in doubt, don’t.[/u]
It’s not a hard thing to post the pictures and we are doing such a visual pastime that they could really enhance what we are trying to post at times. They can also just as easily be stopped or deleted so one photo of a problem seam is much more appreciated than 15 of your cat asleep on your latest creation.[img]http:// ) then right click in the same now highlighted blue box and *copy*.
Go to your chosen post on the forum and *Post Reply*.
In the box, write what you need to, press the enter key a couple of times to put space between what you have written and your picture then right click and *paste*. The http://andlotsofgobblydogookblurb[img] will appear. This is the code link back to your picture in Photobucket. If you preview your post you will see the picture as will everyone else when you post your reply.
If you move or delete your photo in Photobucket you will sever that link to the forum and it will disappear.
This is not the definitive way, it's just my way. Perhaps Gregory would like to add anything specific to being in the USA. There may be differences I'm not aware of.
[color=darkblue]At all times it is important to respect the forum, it’s users and especially those who have to run it. [/color]
[u]If in doubt, don’t.[/u]
It’s not a hard thing to post the pictures and we are doing such a visual pastime that they could really enhance what we are trying to post at times. They can also just as easily be stopped or deleted so one photo of a problem seam is much more appreciated than 15 of your cat asleep on your latest creation.[img]http://andlotsofgobblydogookblurb will appear. This is the code link back to your picture in Photobucket. If you preview your post you will see the picture as will everyone else when you post your reply.
If you move or delete your photo in Photobucket you will sever that link to the forum and it will disappear.
This is not the definitive way, it's just my way. Perhaps Gregory would like to add anything specific to being in the USA. There may be differences I'm not aware of.
[color=darkblue]At all times it is important to respect the forum, it’s users and especially those who have to run it. [/color]
[u]If in doubt, don’t.[/u]
It’s not a hard thing to post the pictures and we are doing such a visual pastime that they could really enhance what we are trying to post at times. They can also just as easily be stopped or deleted so one photo of a problem seam is much more appreciated than 15 of your cat asleep on your latest creation.[img] will appear. This is the code link back to your picture in Photobucket. If you preview your post you will see the picture as will everyone else when you post your reply.
If you move or delete your photo in Photobucket you will sever that link to the forum and it will disappear.
This is not the definitive way, it's just my way. Perhaps Gregory would like to add anything specific to being in the USA. There may be differences I'm not aware of.
At all times it is important to respect the forum, it’s users and especially those who have to run it.
If in doubt, don’t.
It’s not a hard thing to post the pictures and we are doing such a visual pastime that they could really enhance what we are trying to post at times. They can also just as easily be stopped or deleted so one photo of a problem seam is much more appreciated than 15 of your cat asleep on your latest creation.
